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Ryan Dunleavy
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Strange as it sounds for a quarterback who is a 248-yard rushing performance away from getting out of the red in terms of his career total on the ground, Gary Nova might have discovered the key to improving his decision-making in relying on an extremity other than his right arm.

Nova, who at this time last week was trying to hold off Chas Dodd and retain the Rutgers football starting quarterback job, was selected Monday as the American Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week and as one of eight quarterbacks nationally dubbed "Stars of the Week" by the Manning Award.